Clothes hanger



Aug: 2l, 1923. 1,465,659

AF. G. WHEELER "CLOTHES HANGER Filed sem. 2o', -1920 n 4IwmcJW/orn t5 Famine rg @der f As 'show-n inthe drawings, the hangerA PatentedAug. 21, 1923.

' Y oLorHns HANGER.

.Application filedl September 20, 1920; Serial No. 411,535. f

To all whamoz't may concern:

. .Be it knownthat I, FANNIE GRAY WHEEL- nn, a citizen of the United' States,- and a residentv of Bloomington, in the. county of McLean and Sta-teef Illinois, have invented 'certain-new rand useful Improvements in Clothes Hangers; and I-do hereby ydeclare that the following isla full, clear, andeXact description tliereo'hieference being had to the accompanying.,l drawings, and` to the charactersY `of reference markedv thereon, which formV a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes hangers andrefers more particularly to improvements designed' to knock down or collapse the elements of the hanger so that they may Vbe shipped or stored 'in small space, and also to improvementsfdesigned to enable the hangerv to-be clamped to a wall vboard without the necessity of lusing screws or without in any way marring the board. i 'Inthis latter respect the improvementszrelate to a hangerplate that is designed to be attached to vboth a horizontal 'and a vertical wall board, and provided with means whereby thehook element can be-detachably fixed thereto in the same horizonta-lopositi'ons with both adjustments of the :supporting or clamping plate.` A

The invention consists .in the combination and arrangement of the elements shown in the`drawingsl and described in thespecifioation andis pointed out in the appended clairnsf, v Invthe drawings: v Y f Figure 1 is a side view of a clothes hanger embodying my .invention showing the wall board insectionL v A Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the khanger. A Figure 3 is a frontelevation ofthe hanger adjuste'dto a-vertieal wall board. y

embraces, ngeneral terms, a mounting plate lOnnd a hanger element V11 which is det-aca ablyffixed to Y thev mounting vplate and v'en'- tends horizontally therefrom. :j

' T he mounting plate 1Q, in accordance with one phaseof vrthe inventiomis provided with means whereby it may be detachably clamped tothe wallf board, land. by means which p will not;margor--objectionably mutilate the Y Y wallgboard. Saidmounting plate is `made of of asin'gle lpiece -of-llwire, bent uponitself f.

sheet metal,being shown of general-ly" trithe face Vof the wallrboard, an upper hookportion 13 which engagesfover the top of the wall board, and ai lower hook portion 14e, which is spaced from the hook portion 13 ak distance at least vas greatas the widestV .wall board-in connectionfwith which the hanger is to' be-used; The upper hook portion 13- haseone or more spurs 15, two being herein shown, which-rare adapted to bite into the upper edge ofthe wall board, or to Afit backkof the 'same between said board and the wall, depending upon the. thickness of the wall board. The lo'werhook portion :14 is pierced with ya threaded opening 'to receive fr Y a threaded clamping screw 16 that is provided at its upper end with a bearing headV 17 adapted to bear against the lower edge of the wall board. Said head is preferably swiveled to the screw.' The screw is` provided A:1t-its lower end with; an operating hand piece 18,herein yshown' as having thel form .of an eye, by which the screw is' manipulated to force thehead 17 against angular formyand comprises an interme-` v.diateportion 12 adapted to liel parallel to the lower edge of the wall board,vvhen the hook 13 is engaged with the upper edge i thereof. Thev said'intermediate portion 12 ofthe mounting-plate is spaced a distance from the adjacentl face of the wall board, and connected by obliqueV portions 19, 20 with the partsof the plate whichv carry the hooks 13, 14 so that thereby the plate may Y be adjustedtowall boards of different thick,-

ness `without bringing the plate in Contact Vwith the lower edge of the wall board;V f'

u In accordance;l with'Y one; phase ofi-the vention,the said mounting plate is provided Y w-ithtwo pairs of openings-to receive the hook` element 11, hereafterto-'gbe described, ina manner to detachablyloclr thenhook element to the mounting plate.,`r One. ofthe openings 201 of each pairvis a `plain round opening, while the other opening Qlvis of k'eyslotformation; and the openingsof one Y pair are-disposed in afplane' that intersects a plane` passing through theopenings of the Y otherpainwg'g, Y. ii y. The hook element 11 of Vthe hanger is herein shown, and *preferablyv twill be made near the intermediate portion of the wire, and with the principal portions of the arms or members 22 thereof lying parallel. The outer or closed portion of the hanger element, when thus made of a single piece of wire, is turned Aupwardly at 23 to form the hook- Y The terminal of one of the arms, the upper arm as herein shown, is formed to provide a head 24 which is adapted to pass through,

the enlarged portion ofthe key slot opening V21 of either pair of the hook mounting open# ings, and the other hole 2O1 of each pair is ,made only of a diameter to receive the terminal 25 of theother or lower arm or member of the hook element, as shown'in Fig- -ure 1.

Preferably, the said lowerarm or memberV of the hook element 11 diverges downwardly from thel other arm or member to form a brace 26 to brace the hook structure against a load suspended thereon. Desirably also the terminal of said brace member is provided with a shonlder2? which may be formed by a collar Vfitted thereover and brazed or Votherwise fixed thereto, and this u shoulder 1s adapted to` bear on 'the outer face of the mounting plate when the ele ments of the hook structure are assembled so as to afford a definite vstop element for the said brace member 26 which Vwill prevent the hook element sagging downwardly under load.

It will be observed by an inspection of Figures l and 3 that the clamping means whereby the mounting plate is fastened to the vertical or horizontal wall boards A, B

respectively, is such that the said mounting plate may be clamped to both boards vin substantially the same way; and t-he distance between the clamping screwhook le and the under or side face of the wall board is such as to allow for'considerable variation in the widths of the supporting Ywall boards.

The hook element 11 is detachably fixed to the mounting plate by firstfinserting the terminal 25 in one of the holes or 'openings 201 of the mounting plate,'and thereafter inserting the headed terminal 24 of the other arm of the hook member through the enlarged portion of the'opening 2l;V and the Y permanent spring or tension of the arms 22 relatively tofeach other ist such that'said springer tension, after the head 24 is inserted through the upper part of the openf ing 21, will force the shank of they associ;

Y ated arm or member into the smaller or slotted portion of said opening or hole a .l As shown 1n the present instance, the permanent tension or spring of the two hook membersl orarms'are toward each other so that 1 it will be necessary to springfthe upper arm ror member upwardly away fromfthe lower arm or member when inserting the headed terminal 24 through the opening '2L-after the terminal 25 has been set in place. If

the permanent tension or spring of the arms 4 or members of the hook element be awayY from each other, the larger and slotted portions of the openings 21 would be reversed.

From what has'been'said,-it will be ob served that I have produced anr` exceedingly simple, eiiicient and economicalhanger device which isV capable, -when the parts are detached, of being stored in a very compact space, and have also produced a device which well adapts itself tofboth horizontal wall boards, vertical boards, door panels, and the like.y It will also beobserved that the construction is such that the attachment between the hook element and mounting plate is a rugged attachment and that-the hook element is capable of supporting substantial weights, andwthat the weights sustainedv by the hook element Vtend to hold the parts 'of theV structure together;LY y l claim as invention: A Y 1. A clothes 'hanger comprisinga -mounting plate adapted to be interchangeably Vand' y det-achably connected to an upright and to a horizontal wall boardl comprising-a body of greater length than'the board and adapt-VA ed to extend across said'boardand having rearwardly extending end hooks to extend across the edges of saidv board, one of saidk hooks being spaced from-one edge of said boardV and having a threaded aperture, a clamping screw extending through said aperture and engaging its threads and bearing Ylike kind of the two pairs in the two positions of said plate, and the' Yotherterminal being likewisev adapted t0 interchangeably engage the other openings of like kind, whereby said hanger occupies the same Vpo-Y sitionrelatively to a vertical plane regardless of the position of said plate' ongthe wall-board. Y 1 -Y 2. A clothes hanger comprising a mountterchangeably and detachably connect it to an Yupright and a horizontalV support, said body being Y provided Abetween said hooks with two pairs of spaced openings, with Ythe openings of one pair in a planewhich intersects the plane of the openings'ofthe other pair, one opening Yoffeach pair 'being Ya key slotopening, and a hanger having a pair king plate,rhaving end hooks'adapted to in- U.

of terminalsspringable towards and from eachother, onel of -saidj terminalshaving a f projection which interchangeably engages openings of like kind of the tWo pairs, and occupies the same position regardless of a.V

the other terminal .being headed to `loe invertical or horizontal position of themountser'table'interhangeably through the larger ing plate on its support. Y f f10 parts of the key slot openings, and the In Witnersswhereof I claim theforegoing 5 springing function of the latter member as my invention, I hereunto append my sigholding it normally in the smaller parti of nature this 17th1dayfof August.l 1920.

the key slot opening, wherebyY said hanger FANNIE'GRAY WHEELER.

Certificate of Correction.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,465,659, granted August 21, 1928, upon the application of Fannie Gray Wheeler, of Bloomington, Illinois, for an improvement in Clothes Hangers, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 108, claim 1, for the Word special read spaced; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this Correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 9th day of October, A. D., 1923.

[SEAL] WVM. A. KIN NAN,

Acting Commissioner of Patents'. 

